No Darcy Kuemper for the Minnesota Wild to start their second-round series with the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks.

The Wild, whose situation of revolving door goaltenders spun again in its Game 7 victory over the Colorado Avalanche Wednesday when Kuemper left the game with eight minutes remaining in regulation.

Minnesota turns back to Ilya Bryzgalov for Friday's tilt in Chicago.

Wild head coach Mike Yeo was tied lipped about Kuemper's status.

“Upper body injury. Day-to-day. Not much, not giving you much there,” Yeo told the media at Friday's morning skate.

In fact, Kuemper isn't in Chicago.

“He's going to go get checked out and he's getting worked on and that's why we have him at day-to-day,” Yeo added.

In the Windy City and practising, though, was Josh Harding, who hasn't played since the calender flipped to 2014 due to his battle with Multiple Sclerosis.

“This is an extreme longshot to think he would have a chance to play in this series,” Yeo said of Harding, who had an excellent start to the season.

“Get him on the ice and get him back to being part of the group and helping out a little bit with practice. Obviously this time of year, the goalie playing a lot of games isn't going to see a lot of time in practice. It's nice to have three goalies."

Naturally, the question is whether Harding could play.

“I have to figure out exactly what the rules are,” Yeo said. “To be honest with you, I don't even know. For me, I'm not even considering it right now. If there's an absolute emergency or there's a desperate situation we find ourselves in, we'll be prepared for that. We're not getting him on the ice to get ready to play a game, let's put it that way."

Bryzgalov started the first two games of Minnesota's series with the Avalanche, but was given the hook in the second game -- victimized by eight goals in less than 100 minutes of action -- and Kuemper was outstanding the rest of the way.

“Everybody’s comfortable with him,” winger Charlie Coyle said of Bryzgalov. “He’s easy going, funny. He’s always positive, which is the big thing. He’s a positive guy and everyone loves to be around him. He’s so positive nothing fazes him. No matter what happens, he shakes it off and goes out there and does his thing. It’s pretty awesome to watch and you can learn from him.”

The Blackhawks, who last played on Sunday, are making one change for the start of this set. Winger Kris Versteeg, a healthy scratch in their series-clinching win over the St. Louis Blues, is back in the lineup in place of youngster Joakim Nordstrom.

Corey Crawford is set to start in net.

Here are the lines based on the morning skate:

CHICAGO

Forwards

Bryan Bickell-Jonathan Toews-Marian Hossa

Patrick Sharp-Ben Smith-Parick Kane

Brandon Saad-Marcus Kruger- Andrew Shaw

Brandon Bollig-Michal Handzus-Kris Versteeg

Defence

Duncan Keith-Brent Seabrook

Johnny Oduya-Niklas Hjalmarsson

Nick Leddy-Michal Rozsival

Goal

Corey Crawford

Antti Raanta

MINNESOTA

Forward

Matt Moulson-Mikko Koivu-Charlie Coyle

Zach Parise-Mikael Granlund-Jason Pominville

Nino Niederreiter-Kyle Brodziak -Dany Heatley

Cody McCormik-Erik Haula-Stephane Veilleux

Defence

Ryan Suter-Jonas Brodin

Jared Spurgeon-Marco Scandella

Nate Prosser-Clayton Stoner

Goal

Ilya Bryzgalov

John Curry

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